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Japan Enters Nuclear Recess as Sole Working Power Reactor Shuts

Japan began a recess from nuclear- generated electricity, its first in more than four decades, after its sole operating power reactor was halted for scheduled maintenance last night.
Hokkaido Electric Power Co.’s Tomari No. 3 reactor in northern Japan stopped generating electricity at 11:03 p.m. yesterday, and fission ceased at 4 a.m. this morning, said Satoshi Takada, a spokesman for the utility.
Closing the 912-megawatt Tomari unit leaves Japan without an operating power reactor for the first time since May 1970, as plant operators carry out mandatory maintenance or additional safety checks following the Fukushima disaster. The ... (full story)